#227: more wood
Yesterday, Andrea and I joined the Saturday morning Trinity ride. The morning was sort of cold (~40°F) with rain threatening to make it an epic ride. We rolled north up towards Brunswick as we normally do with the cold dampness getting supplemented by stinging rain. Fortunately, the rain was short lived (only a few miles). Although it did come back a few times before the colds rain really came to town (after our ride fortunately).
Our plan was to do the ride, but keep the watts at or below Tempo watts (<90% FTP). This is easy to do 85% of the time on a subdued Trinity ride (like yesterday). Up and down hills, not so much, so we fell off the group over the rollers at Macedonia. By then the conditions were looking grim and we headed straight into Arlington, bypassing Galloway. We ended up getting caught by the group on Memphis-Arlington Road… only to fall off on Seed Tick. For me the whole experience was annoying, trying to stay below these numbers while watching the group just walk away from us. Anyway, we did this to prep for a super-long Outdoor’s ride extended (~100 miles) with some intensity in the middle. Since the weather this morning is just off freezing and it supposed to warm to about 40°F later, we are going to delay and do the ride by ourselves out east heading towards the S&N GP race course.
After our ride yesterday, we went to Newk’s (as we do) for lunch. Following that, we headed up to Home Depot to look at their blinds. When I bought the house last September, I had the seller include the window treatments to avoid having to get everything at once. The kitchen ones were especially terrible, just some thin curtains hung cafe-style over the bottom half of the window. Anyway, problem solved.
Next thing will be doing some painting of the plain white walls of the entire house.
